Category Archives: recovery

The equation

Posted on October 28, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Failure + listening can never equal failure © Meisaan Chan

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Slow going

Posted on October 27, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Sometimes it’s slow going because the path dissolved; but keep plodding, slow as it is © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)

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Vigilance

Posted on October 26, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Be on guard for self-hatred that most toxic of poisons © Meisaan Chan

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Protector

Posted on October 25, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Sometimes I thwart my own happiness and am the foil for my own plans; O Lord, hear me: place me in your eternal womb; protect me from myself and my potential harm © Meisaan Chan

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Tend to the health of your roots

Posted on October 24, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

for no matter what you build they cover all © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)

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If you have no car, no bike, no phone, no shoes, nothing that the world values

Posted on October 18, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

There are so many ways home, says the Lord; come home, dear ones, come home © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)

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The spirit and the body

Posted on October 14, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

It is a spiritual practice to stop where the boundaries are; pushing beyond the boundary never moves the boundary it just means you pushed © Meisaan Chan

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Strength in the storm

Posted on October 11, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

When all is crisis turn first to me: bow and prostrate and pray – do this not for me, but for you, O fragile heart for you to remember your core © Meisaan Chan

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The plea

Posted on October 10, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Sometimes life stretches out in one, great, unhurried expanse like the slow, rolling hills of Nebraska; sometimes it crumples together, dense and rugged and I constantly lose my footing; however the path unfolds before me, please keep me on the … Continue reading →

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Footprints, of a sort

Posted on October 6, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

…and in the strangest places, flowers grow a sign that the Lord has passed © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)

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